Every team competing in the 2026 World Baseball Classic has played exhibition games earlier this week and some official play already began as of this post with Australia and Korea already gaining official Pool C victories over Taipei and Czechia, respectively. I would love for some sort of rematch between Japan and the United States but I do hope Australia also advances. This week's post will give some room for the WBC participants to breathe a bit as it also allows me to focus on today being National Oreo Cookie Day which is significant because the last time March 6 fell on a Friday was in 2020. In retrospect, that 2003-04 Oneonta Tigers cap would have definitely been a fine opportunity to highlight the holiday. The following week I posted a 1994-96 Oneonta Yankees cap, and my corresponding Instagram missive just so happened to feature the hat alongside a "The Most Stuf" Oreo package that my sister had sent to me. Looking back at that post, ...
Without a doubt, the biggest sports news of the week was the 2026 Winter Olympics gold medal wins by the United States women's national ice hockey team last Friday, followed by the men’s first gold since the "Miracle on Ice" team of 1980—exactly 46 years after that team's historic victory—this past Sunday. After watching those wins I instantly knew I wanted to celebrate each of them so this week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection is the "Go USA!" variant of the Ghost Army design by Efra Sanchez (aka @chamucosstudio on Instagram) for The Clink Room. This is the third Ghost Army cap I've featured here but the first time I've featured Clinker Efra's reimagining of the insignia that is now widely associated with the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops years after the story of these masters of wartime deception finally became known to the public. I missed out on the first Ghost Army release at The Clink Room but feel this "Go USA!" colorw...